There is not way to convince me about such spy-ware. If you want to
collect statics with an opt-in, you can achieve the same by launching a
counter website.

Fine, then according to your "definition," Yum and virtually every web browser
are all also spyware, among others. They also send with their requests your
hostname/IP information, User-Agent information, timestamp, etc.
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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